The arithmetic of dynamical systems

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Matt Baker – School of Math, Georgia Tech
Organizer
Huy Huynh

Please Note: Hosted by: Huy Huynh and Yao Li

I will discuss some theorems and conjectures in the relatively new field of arithmetic dynamics, focusing in particular on some methods from number theory which can be used to study the orbits of points in algebraic dynamical systems.